Effective Training in Overweight and Obese People

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Overweight; Obesity

Treatments: Behavioral: continuous moderate-intensity aerobic training; Behavioral: Strength training; Behavioral: high-intensity interval aerobic training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00218920

4-2005.542

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to come to a consensus about how to prescribe exercise training that actually helps overweight and obese people. Thus, the present study determines the effects of several types of exercise training to define the one with the largest effect with the least effort.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Body mass index (BMI) over 30

Exclusion criteria

• Not able to walk on a treadmill
• Participating in an other study
• Serious cardiovascular diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Factorial Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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40 participants in 3 patient groups

strength training

Experimental group

Description:

Over a 12-week period, 13 subjects performed three programmed exercise sessions per week; two supervised by the study investigators in the research laboratory and one performed at home or in a gym, according to instructions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Strength training

continuous moderate-intensity aerobic training

Experimental group

Description:

Over a 12-week period, 13 subjects performed three programmed exercise sessions per week; two supervised by the study investigators in the research laboratory and one performed at home or in a gym, according to instructions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: continuous moderate-intensity aerobic training

high-intensity interval aerobic training

Experimental group

Description:

Over a 12-week period, 14 subjects performed three programmed exercise sessions per week; two supervised by the study investigators in the research laboratory and one performed at home or in a gym, according to instructions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: high-intensity interval aerobic training